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I LEARN TERM 6 FOCUS: NUMERACY 19th July 2019

A message from the Headteacher: Today’s edition of the newsletter is the last one of the year with lots of important information for our last week of term and also for our new academic year starting in September. We have had another fantastic year at Lawn Manor and we are very proud of everything that our pupils and staff have achieved. I’m sure you realise how busy the school is from our weekly updates and the opportunities that we give our pupils through curricular and extra-curricular activities! Next week sees our annual ‘enrichment week’ and we are all very much looking forward to that, we have an amazing array of activities going on, definitely something for everyone! May I just remind you that pupils are in non-school uniform and have a delayed starting time of 9.40am. We will share some of the highlights of our week in a picture special edition of the newsletter. In advance to this, I do hope that you have a fantastic summer when it comes and that the weather stays kind to us!

Sandra Muir Headteacher

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We have numerous items in lost property. Please collect from Student Services before Wednesday 24th July, anything that is not collected will be taken to a charity shop.

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Lawn Manor Academy

Enrichment Week 22nd July –25th July

Timetable – Monday 22nd – Wednesday 24th • School starts at 09.40, please make your way

to your I LEARN for registration • Activities will start at 10.00 • School finishes at 15:00 • Non uniform all week but please wear suitable

clothing for the activities you have chosen i.e. sports kit for sporting activities

If you are going on a school trip, you should have received a letter with the information for that day.

Thursday 25th • School starts at 09.40, please make your

way to your I LEARN for registration • School finishes at 12.20 • Non school uniform

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Enrichment Week 22nd – 25th July The start time for pupils will be different next week – Registration will be at 9.40 in their I Learn. If your child is on a trip there may be an earlier start time and this information will be given by the trip organiser. End of Term We finish for the summer on Thursday 25th July at 12.20pm. Packed lunches will be provided for the children in receipt of free school meals. Exam Results GCSE Examination results will be available to pupils on Thursday 22nd August at 9am. Please note that we are unable to give results to parents. It must be the pupils who collect the results in person on this day. Results will be distributed from East Manor Hall.

Dates for your diary

Arrangements for the beginning of Term 1 2019/20 Year 7 and 11 pupils return to school on Tuesday 3rd September. Year 8, 9 and 10 pupils return to school on Wednesday 4th September. All pupils are required to return in full Lawn Manor Academy uniform and should be fully equipped to make a good start to their learning following the summer holidays. All year groups should arrive promptly at 8.40am with Year 7 reporting to West Manor Hall, Year 11 reporting to East Manor Hall (and all other year groups directly to their I LEARN tutor). Parent Evenings We have had a fantastic year communicating with our parents here at Lawn Manor Academy, with record numbers of parents and carers making appointments at Parents’ Evenings and Progress Review Days to discuss progress with their children’s teachers. We are extremely grateful that parents are taking the time to come and discuss how to work together with their children to improve learning – it makes a huge difference! The Parents’ Evening dates for 2019/20 are as follows: All Years Meet the Tutor Evening Thursday 17th October 2019 Year 11 Parents’ Evening Thursday 12th December 2019 Year 7 Parents’ Evening Thursday 30th January 2020 Year 8 Parents’ Evening Thursday 19th March 2020 All Years Meet the Tutor Evening Thursday 2nd April 2020 Year 9 Parents’ Evening Thursday 14th May 2020 Year 10 Parents’ Evening Thursday 18th June 2020 If you have any questions about Parents’ Evening or would like help accessing the Parents’ Evening software, please contact jdelap@lawnmanor.org Term dates Tuesday 3rd September – Year 7 and 11 return Wednesday 4th September – Years 8,9,10 return Term 1: Tuesday 3rd September – Friday 18th October 2019 Term 2: Monday 4th November – Friday 20th December 2019 Term 3: Monday 6th January – Thursday 13th February 2020 Term 4: Monday 24th February – Friday 3rd April 2020 Term 5: Tuesday 20th April – Friday 22nd May 2020 Term 6: Monday 1st June – Friday 17th July 2020 Teacher Training days will take place on the following dates with the school closed to Pupils: Monday 2nd September 2019 Friday 29th November 2019 Friday 14th February 2020 Reminder: May bank holiday has changed, for 2020 the date is Friday 8th May

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Lawn Manor Staff

We say goodbye this term to the following staff and we wish them every success in their new ventures, whether that be new jobs, new schools or promotions: Mrs Helen Watkins, Science Teacher Mr Jonathan Hill, Assistant Headteacher Mr Jonathan Shephard, Cover Supervisor Miss Kitty Cleaver, MFL Teacher Mr Mitchell Stephens, Geography Teacher Some of our staff will take up new roles within Lawn Manor Academy from September: Mr Marek Koza, Assistant Headteacher Miss Laura Conroy, Head of Maths Mrs Freya Koza, 2nd in Maths Mrs Kirsty Liu, 2nd in Maths Mrs Sarah Smith, Head of DT We welcome the following new staff to the Lawn Manor team in September: Ms Claire Hutchings- Music Teacher Ms Lucy King - Teacher Science Mr Alex Gasche - Teacher of History Ms Natasha Dixon - Teacher of Drama/Dance Ms Razia Ahmadi - Teacher of Science Ms Anna Hegarty - Teacher of MFL Year Leaders 2019/20: Year 7 Mrs Fiona Harper Year 8 Mrs Ayeasha Rani Year 9 Mrs Felicity Roberts Year 10 Miss Charlotte Fox Year 11 Mr David Franklin Lawn Manor Prom 2019

Marriott Hotel played host to our Year 11 Prom for the first time ever. A spectacular evening was had by all. Everyone looked stunning, with the girls

sporting some spectacular dresses and the boys in outstanding and unique suits. Arrival was a Hollywood affair with pupils arriving in stretched limos, Ferrari’s, Mustang sports

cars and a motor bike. The weather was perfect and everyone made use of the outside areas to take some stunning photos. We were treated to an evening of Magical Entertainment from Andy

Fields Magician Extraordinaire. He stunned staff and pupils alike with gasps “how did he do that” and “make that disappear again “. The photo booth from Happy Donut was a hit, with many staff and pupils returning for more and more photos. The Ferrero Roche stand was a hit and was attacked as soon as the pupils arrived. Among the awards issued throughout the night, as voted for by the year group, was The Lawn Manor 2019 Prom king and Queen: Heavenly Bernard and Pacey Holloway We wish the entire year group all the best and look forward to catching up with them in August on results day. Ayeasha Rani

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What a day! Lawn Manor hosted their second sports day and it will be a difficult one to beat. The weather was kind, the facilities were spot on and the pupils smashed existing records. In a nutshell, it is a day when sporting activities dominate the timetable and all pupils get involved in one activity or another. In the morning, we run the traditional field events, the 800 metres race and the crowd favourite tug of war. If pupils are not involved in these, they will be participating in Ultimate Frisbee, Dodgeball, Handball and “fun” races with all given the opportunity to pick up house points. The afternoon sees the whole school on the field to watch the traditional track events, including the staff relay team competing against Year 10s. The grand finale is the finals of the tug of war in which the victorious Year 10 tutor team is challenged by a staff team. Throughout all, there is an event ceremony taking place in which, pupils are presented with gold, silver and bronze medals if they finish in the top 3 of their event. Phew!! I hope we are all in training for next year.

You can follow the performing arts team on Twitter! MrJones @lawnmanormusic

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Lawn Manor Sports News

On Monday we attended the Year 7 & Year 8 Swindon school’s athletics championships at the County Ground. We had a lovely day in the sunshine and all athletes did themselves proud gaining some new PB's. Special praise to Thiago Trevisan who won the High Jump clearing 1 metre 40 cm and to Mackenzie Downing on winning the Javelin event with a throw of nearly 20 metres.

On Tuesday we attended the Year 9 & Year 10 athletic championships. Both teams did really well and the highlights were Fran Cerda winning the 200 metres, Connor Gunning winning the 800m. Tye Stroud winning both the Year 9 100m and 200m events. The Year 9 boys relay team winning this event and the Year 10 relay team coming 2nd in their event. Well done to all.

At the start of the year, all three houses were set a challenge to read 25 million words by the end of the year. Years 7, 8 & 9 use the Accelerated Reader programme in every English lesson and a weekly library session in order to encourage them to make reading part of their daily lives and develop a love of reading which will stay with them for their whole lifetime. The amount of reading completed this year has been amazing and the word count total stands at over 91 million words and over 6,500 books. These figures are superb and show how much reading is enjoyed by our pupils. Fitzroy and Goddard successfully completed the 25 million word challenge. We also have 13 pupils who have entered the exclusive Millionaire Club by reading over 1,000,000 words this year. Congratulations to all these pupils.

• Aayush Gurung • Ahmed Osman • Bareera Aziz • Chrisel Taclawan-Lopes • Faizah Miah • George Moran • Katie Philips • Lacie Nelhams • Mahnoor Shoaib • Nazita Hashimy • Prasanna Gurung • Siddarth Sentil Kumar • Vanessa Pilkyte

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The PTA team just wanted to say a very big thank you to all the parents who purchased a drink, cake or snack from our refreshments stall at the ‘We Will Rock You’ performances last week. You all helped us to raise an amazing £215 which has been banked for now but will be used to help support and enhance the school and pupils in the future. With your support we have raised almost £3000 since we set the PTA up over the past 18 months and plan to work out what we are going to spend it on at our next PTA meeting in September. If you want a say in where the money gets spent, come and join us everyone welcome. You can contact us on pta@lawnmanor.org if you would like to join a PTA meeting or if you think you could spare a couple of hours each term to volunteer? (it's friendly and informal and every other meeting is in the pub!) As we near the end of the school year it is a good time to remind you that we are collecting outgrown or no longer required Lawn Manor blazers, and branded PE kit along with skirts, trousers and ties in good condition. We hope to set up our own online shop of pre-worn items but need stock to enable this. If you have any unwanted items please send into school reception marked PTA. If you fancy co-ordinating this on behalf of the PTA please let us know. Thank you again for your support!

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On Monday 15th July we were delighted to host a summer sing/sign along party (which also included White Christmas!) with our friends from the OK4U centre. Since September 2018, Lawn Manor Academy pupils have been visiting the centre for adults with learning needs weekly and taking part in singing/signing sessions. Our pupils have built up great relationships with the centre and have thoroughly enjoyed their experience working alongside these adults and we feel privileged that they have requested that we continue in the new academic year. Some of the pictures demonstrate how much everyone enjoyed themselves and how music is such great therapy. If there are any pupils that would like to visit the centre next term and take part in Singing/Signing sessions, then please see Becci Benson for more information.

OK4U

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EAL Day We organised a special event to celebrate the diversity here at Lawn Manor Academy. The event held on 15th July created opportunities for Lawn Manor pupils to learn about the values of other religions, listen to music from different cultures and learn about different languages. Pupils spent the day getting involved in various activities such as learning how to drape Saree, Polish baking, Indian cuisine and fruit carving.

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On the second day of the celebration, we invited Year 4 pupils from local primary schools. This has provided our pupils with the skills, knowledge and opportunities to learn with, from and about those from different cultures, beliefs and backgrounds in order to develop shared values. Local community leaders were invited to the event and Canon John Cunningham from Holy Rood Church, Dr Sheikh Rafi Ahmed, the Muslim community leader and scientist, Ram Thiagarajah the school coordinator of the Swindon Hindu Temple Trust and Arindom Roy Choudhury from SHAROD attended and gave talks to the pupils about faith, beliefs and religions.

We were extremely delighted with how the day went and thanked all the staff, the visitors and specially the pupil volunteers for making the event such a positive and enjoyable experience for all. Mr Das

Lawn Manor Library News

Bingo Kiera Walsh – 7 Jay Thomas – 7 Murtaza Ali- 7 Michelle Cen – 7

Quiz Mahnoor Shoaib – 7 x 2 wins Jay Thomas – 7 Kiera Walsh – 7 Murtaza Ali- 7 Kyra Bourne – 7 x 2 wins Nazita Hashimy- 7

Games Jay Thomas – 7 x 2 wins Kyra Bourne – 7 x 2 wins Murtaza Ali- 7 Nazita Hashimy- 7

Each pupil received a housepoint, certificate and

chocolate per win. Total for each house:

Fitzroy = 2 Goddard =12 Pleydell = 4

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DofE Bronze Expedition 2019

DofE Bronze Expedition 2019 Congratulations to this year’s group of DofE pupils who recently passed their expedition section of the DofE award. The pupils walked a tough 11.2 miles on Saturday afternoon in the hot sun with heavy backpacks full of camping gear. Once they arrived at camp, tents were set up and gas stoves were lit as they cooked up some well-earned food. A cold night of camping was then followed up by some cooked breakfast and cereal bars to take on board the required energy for the walk back home. An extraordinary effort and congratulations to all of the following pupils: Emily Umney Lynn Monteiro Zahra Bakhshyar Alexandra Bamford Jane Banuve Rebecca Mason Annie Randall John Wetton Melanie Azevedo Beate Eversome Ryan Andrews Brandon Ball Tye Stroud Oliver Harding Richard Hewitson Shauna King

PD Day

Wednesday saw our last Personal Development Day of the academic year. Year 7 and 8 enjoyed a day with an International theme, that included a session of Danish Longball. Year 9 spent the day with a company called 'Revolution Hive', who ran workshops on Growth Mindset, Financial Wellbeing and Ethical Consumerism, which went down really well with the pupils. Meanwhile, Year 10's, covered a range of topics, including a fascinating talk from Major General Peter Williams, who spoke about his time as a spy during the Cold War.

25 million word

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House No. of words House Points

Fitzroy 41,261,710 100

Goddard 34,257,018 50

Pleydell 16,171,785 25

Term 6

FITZROYSTUDENTS WHO HAVE READ THE MOST WORDS

25 million word

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Term 6

Name Year WordsKatie Philips 7 2,540,001Faizah Miah 8 2,402,825Lacie Nelhams 7 1,623,157Siddarth Sentil Kumar 8 1,406,380Prasanna Gurung 9 1,234,775

GODDARDSTUDENTS WHO HAVE READ THE MOST WORDS

25 million word

challenge

Term 6Name Year WordsChrisel Taclawan-Lopes 7 3,099,850Bareera Aziz 7 2,605,441Mahnoor Shoaib 7 1,988,695Aayush Gurung 7 1,878,018Vanessa Pilkyte 7 1,662,515

PLEYDELLSTUDENTS WHO HAVE READ THE MOST WORDS

25 million word

challenge

Term 6Name Year WordsAhmed Osman 7 1,588,303Jay Thomas 7 513,048Lilly Smith 7 502,043Naheeda Niazi 7 468,228Emilja Konieczna 7 465,281

36.Newsletter 19th July 2019_ End of Year Letter36.Accelerated ReaderSlide Number 1fitzroy�Students who have read the most wordsGoddard�Students who have read the most wordsPleydell�Students who have read the most words